This has led the team to be bad most notably in pitching, but they have been poor on some other obscure categories. The only team worse on defense in the MLB has been the Angels. This means that defense alone, the team has allowed almost 53 more runs per game than the MLB average. As for the Nationals, they rank 3rd worst with just 126 home runs in 133 games. FIP (Fielding Independent Pitching)The team can blame their fielding all they want, but the pitching has been bad on its own.